Posted Sunday at 11:34 AM · Report post

On 11/27/2016 at 10:12 AM, 4MyEgo said:

It makes no sense to me for use of different terms for the date as above (Sunday/27).  Non English speakers have enough trouble without making what should be easy hard.  And to confuse more we have the (US) month/day/year rather than the normal (Thai and most of world) Day/Month/Year format?  Total nuts.

2 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Posted Sunday at 11:34 AM · Report post

On Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 10:12 AM, 4MyEgo said:

It makes no sense to me for use of different terms for the date as above (Sunday/27).  Non English speakers have enough trouble without making what should be easy hard.  And to confuse more we have the (US) month/day/year rather than the normal (Thai and most of world) Day/Month/Year format?  Total nuts.

 

Totally agree. Even worse IMO is the "Just Now", "A few minutes ago", "Yesterday", "Last week" and other ridiculous formats.

 

Just use ONE format: the date, as in Day/Month/Year Hour/Minute. Precede with the day of the week if you must.

 

 

Will the AM/PM, mm/dd/yy guys accept such a culture shock?

Or will there an uprising?

 

In such a "multicultural" forum I always prefer to write the month in a three letter English abbreviation.

Excuse me, but I hate the AM/PM format and prefer the 24h format.

(more than once the unknowingly have missed their "12:30 AM" flight when they showed up at 11:00h ).

 

Date/time:

 

30 Nov 2016, 11:13h

29 Nov 2016, 17:45h

 

The "ago" would be nice as an addition in a rough granularity (days or months or years).

Just don't have a precise idea how to do.

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Even worse IMO is the "Just Now", "A few minutes ago", "Yesterday", "Last week" and other ridiculous formats.

If it would be an addition to a format as described I would find it fine.

 

29 Nov 2016, 17:45h (yesterday)

24 Nov 2016, 13:32h (last week)

 

Maybe leave out the time stamp for posts that are not of today.

29 Nov 2016 (yesterday)

24 Nov 2016 (last week)

 

Note:

Some forums give a warning (are you sure) when you want to post in a thread that is inactive for more than a certain time span (like one year).

 

The IT/programming guys will be enthusiastic about my wishlist

 

 

Just stumbled upon this

 

Thailand Live Wednesday 30 Nov 2016

Yes am sure they could easily set one standard rather than try and confuse everyone as seems to be the status now. 

2 hours ago, JetsetBkk said:

 

Totally agree. Even worse IMO is the "Just Now", "A few minutes ago", "Yesterday", "Last week" and other ridiculous formats.

 

Just use ONE format: the date, as in Day/Month/Year Hour/Minute. Precede with the day of the week if you must.

 

 

 

Gents, I didn't even realise that a time let alone a date was showing on my reply to posts, happy to convert if one can tell me where the setting is as I had a quick look but couldn't find it 555

Is not about anything you did - it is the way the forum assignes date/time to messages.  Just used a post we had for an example.